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The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin – why digital currencies are challenging traditional banking systems
Digital currencies, especially Bitcoin, are increasing in valuation. Speculations in the causes of the recent bull-run on Bitcoin should be examined closer. Here
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China launch digital Yuan to “help the world”
Is this the first shot of the coming digital currency wars of the 2020’s? See David Lee from Singapore University of social sciences
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COVID-19: A review of pandemic scenarios
The Triumph of Death by Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted c. 1562 Historically pandemics have killed millions, devasted societies and changed the course
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The ‘Autonomous Zone’ In Seattle as a Harbinger Of America’s Future
T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone is a book by the anarchist writer and poet Hakim Bey. This is how it seems to be
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Scenario notes on the consequences of the corona pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on health care systems and the global economy. The many unknowns of the virus make it hard
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China and global epidemic modeling
The narrowing gap between modeled and virologically confirmed cases is important for several reasons. First, it shows that the massive public health effort
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Speculating on the 2024 U.S. presidential election: The final transhumanist left/right showdown?
U.S. presidential elections are scheduled on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Following that schedule, the 2024 elections are to be
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Killing General Suleimani
This insurance plan against a remote contingency was spelled out in a 2000 article published by the prestigious Chinese Society for Strategy and
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Dismantling the doomsday machine
I would say that our damage-limiting, counterforce-decapitating, highly accurate, fast-launched weapons—air-launched weapons and ICBMs and increasingly accurate sub-launched missiles, but particularly the ICBMs,
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